The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1887-09-16

| Aatdi arrays are OF frequent occurrence
among them. They are clannish, pre-
serve their national customs, subsis
on the cheapest food and endure pri
vations and hardships that would Kill
nine out Of ten of our native popula
ton. / saw one poor fellow, who, by
the cut of his clothes had apparently
but recently left sunny Italy, trying t.
thaw out his frost-bitten fingers on one
of the chilliest days during our recent
cold snap. He had gathered few pa.
pers together and started bonfire un.
der the lee of one of the pillars which
support the elevated railroad. He was
thrusting his hands in the flames fol
relief, but by the agony expressed in has
face am fearful that it did not come.
Brooklyn pays about 5000 annual
ly for the removal of its ashes, and last
year over 260, 900 loads were carried to
! The low lots which abound in South
Brooklyn and: elsewhere. 1t is near
these dumps, in miserable novels, that
the last, but by no means the least, class
of this great family of rag-pickers
dwell. They sre up betimes in the
morning awaiting the arrival of the
ash carts like so many vultures would
await the coming of prey. and no car
rion crows ever plunged their talons in
the carcass of dead cow with more
voracity than these people settle down
to frouzy examination of the ash
heaps. A person would suppose that
little remains in the ashes after the
rummaging Of the Italian street pick
ers. But men. women and children by
the hundreds work there with bag and
basket from sunrise to sunset. Old
coal scuttles, pots. kettles, pans, broken
crockery, hats, caps, bonnets, cast of
garments, feathers, coal, wood and a
multitude of similar articles are taken
to the finders shanties and cleaned and
repaired for personal use. Old metal,
rags, paper, bones, bottles, tin cans
and scraps of tin, hair, corks, bits Of
leather and rope are carried away for
assortment and sale. There are hum
dreds of things which our forefathers
threw away, which we find many
ways of utilizing. Within gen.
Grafton the residuary products
arising from the manufacture of
gas, which were formerly considered
worthless, have through new meth
DDS Of distillation and manufacture
been made to yield coal oil, salts OF
ammonia, naphtha, tar, pitch, creosote,
benzole. carbolic acid, paraffine, an
lime, naphthaline, and, by combination
with coal, shales, alum. copperas and
sulphuric acid. So it is with the con-
tents Of the rag-picker's bag. Wooden
rags, old stockings, white flannel, car
peting, serge, tailors' trimmings, old
coats, gowns and other condemned
garments are sent to the shoddy man.
ufacturer, where they are torn into
shreds, mixed with new wool and man.
ufactured into cheap and serviceable
cloth. Wooden rags are also ground up
into flock and artificial flowers and can
always be used no matter how old.
Linen cloths are sent to the pxpcr
Che best paper Cotton rags 90 to
paper makers. while house RAGS and
dish cloths, which are covered with
grease. are sold to hop growers for
manure All kinds of paper are sent
70 the papier mache manufacturer. who
produces various ornamental and use.
[u articles, such as tea trays. cigar and |
tobacco cases and match boxes. Bones
IRE boiled for their grease and gel
ltlne, converted into charcoal and
lsed in sugar refineries, sold to
he tanner who manufactures case
handles, knive handles and other use
VI articles, or they are ground up and
old to the farmer as phosphates of
lme, forming an excellent and highly
aiued manure. Old bottles, phials
nd fragments of glass are remelted.
oiored BY unique process and made
nto fiat pieces which are broken up
1to irregular shapes to serve as mosaic
'indow glass. Pieces of tin and tin /,
ans are sold to chemical works or to
manufacturers who melt them into
indow weights. Old boots are sold
men who patch them up for the
leap trade. or II they are too dilapi-
tied they are ground up with other .
agments OF leather and compressed i.
TO insoles for cheap shoes. The tin :
ID solder are removed from old +
ucepans aud sold to the dealer in 6
ese articles. In Paris the utility Of Z
cry thing is demonstrated. Coal and :
hes are sold to brick burners. the dive b
extracted from scarlet cloths for
'od staining purposes, and the bodies Of
dead cats and dogs are skinned and g
hides used in the manufacture of .
ives, and one enterprising chap buys "
: Of bread. grinds them up and re- h
u them to French cooks a. bread 70
lmbs.-G. r A., IN Byooklyn Eoole. .
~ suppose, !" said Dumley, after he u
registered. to the hotel clerk. - -
at when guest has no baggage his
'sona appearance has more or less d
20 In making him pay in advance. . pi'
q, yes" replied the clerk. .In IN
business we soon learn to sixe : g
a up. Win you have your trunk ~
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